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Aguardiente   Listen
noun
Aguardiente  n.  
1.
A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.
2.
A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. (Mexico and Spanish America.)





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"Aguardiente" Quotes from Famous Books



... wants the truth about the Montagues does not consult the Capulets. There must be bad characters amongst the Carlists, I reflected; and when they are on outpost duty at a distance from officers, and have taken a drop of aguardiente too much, they may sometimes fail to appreciate the nice distinction between meum and tuum. The band of one Belcha, which was hovering in the neighbourhood of San Sebastian, had a shady reputation. ...
— Romantic Spain - A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) • John Augustus O'Shea
... left Santa Fe they passed the night in a little village, four men being billeted in every house under the charge of one soldier. Golpin and another of his stamp were, however, left without any guard in the house of a small retailer of aguardiente, who, being now absent, had left his old wife alone in the house. She was a good hospitable soul, and thought it a Christian duty to administer to the poor prisoners all the relief she could afford. She gave them some of her husband's linen, bathed their feet with warm water ...
— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat


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